Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Despite operating in Canada’s capitated healthcare system where investment in innovation is challenging, the leadership team at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Holland Bloorview) in Toronto, Ontario has found a way to make it part of their DNA. Innovation Examples. We look at the whole child,” explained Hanigsberg. “Of

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Key takeaways: From a nursing perspective – focus on virtual nursing. Leverage monitoring and telehealth technology in the hospital / clinic to allow a more experienced nurse to oversee more of the treatment of patients. How to be the eye in the sky. Their presentation, “Ditch the Clipboard!

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

Smartphones, tablets, two-in-one notebooks, and other connected devices and sensors are now commonplace inside and outside hospitals and clinics, greatly expanding the potential for data-driven solutions that can improve patient care. How can we ensure patients’ privacy with all the devices and sensors transmitting data?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

Workflow automation that uses AI to infer clinical meaning and ML to improve its performance over time may not directly contribute to the care of my patient but improves my ability to do so. For example, using automation with AI to replace manual data entry, lengthy progress note writing, phone calls (and faxes – still!)

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2023

.” In her work at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, Dr. Safo collaborates with a multidisciplinary team of data analysts, designers, and engineers, in concert with doctors and nurses. She asks: “Why isn’t there an artist on a practice transformation and improvement team?” A New Book Asks and Answers (Yes!)

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2024

Many large hospital systems have a team of in-house interpreters, but it can be challenging to manage those resources—hospitals often expend a lot of time and money as interpreters travel from one facility to another or make house calls with traveling nurses.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2024, the focus will shift towards AI-enabled decision-making as advanced analytics will be used to identify actionable insights for patients, providers, and payers. AI will not replace healthcare professionals, but it will augment their capabilities to provide superior patient care. So many technologies to keep an eye on!

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 18, 2023

One of the key ideas behind the restructure is around integration and enabling multiple siloed departments and services for patient care to communicate more easily with one another, thereby improving patient experience. This certainly rings true with the Continuing Healthcare (CHC) process.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

He’s part of Philips’ leadership team, and as such design informs corporate strategy at the company. The consulting team assesses both patient experience and care pathways, beyond just the historical role of selling medical devices to health care providers. Now we need to think about the wider ecosystem.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2024

Many large hospital systems have a team of in-house interpreters, but it can be challenging to manage those resources—hospitals often expend a lot of time and money as interpreters travel from one facility to another or make house calls with traveling nurses.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Nursing appears to have the highest rate of burnout at 56%. The number of nurses who reported a conscious and deliberate desire to find other employment came in at 41%. Complicating matters further has been the increasing number of verbal and physical attacks by patients. Take, for example, automation in healthcare.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Here are some specific examples of how virtual wards are being used today and how they may be used in the future: Today: Virtual wards are being used to care for patients with a variety of conditions, including COPD, heart failure, diabetes, and pneumonia.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2024

Reducing denials is one of the top three priorities of every CFO we speak to, and by automating routine tasks such as filling forms, submitting appeals and denials pattern tracking, organizations can reallocate their skilled staff to more critical and high-value areas, enhancing the patient experience while managing operational costs effectively.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Those metrics leave leadership no alternative but to look to technology to augment the lack of staff. Traditionally manual tasks like utilization management reviews hinder nurses’ productivity, increasing the risk of burnout. A good example is collaborative care models in mental health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2024

We’re told that different AI applications and tools can reduce administrative burden and clinical burnout, improve patient experience and outcomes, and so much more. Nurses, in particular, often field a variety of patient calls that range from scheduling appointments to answering medical questions.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

APRIL 26, 2021

Core principles of the cancer care program include: Leveraging clinical expertise and experience across all medical groups and care teams. Improving patient experience and care coordination through digital transformation of care delivery. According to Dr. Kolevska, these are exciting times for cancer care leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2024

The Ada tool encourages patient suggestions for improvement (Figure 1), which are included when the staff evaluate AI results. Example of accepting patient feedback. In response to a patient suggestion, the software engineer might create a new field in the input to AI, or change the weights of various factors.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

While there was a lot of gratitude for being back together, it was also great to see the transition of leadership that happened on stage. Cool to see the transition of leadership at @PointClickCare #connectatsummit. I expect this will yield some good results for patients. pic.twitter.com/BuyrjSvGty. connectatsummit.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2022

TigerConnect, for example, is seeing success with its new scheduling products that leverage the company’s success […]. As healthcare continues to grapple with staffing challenges, organizational leaders are more keenly interested in technologies that will reduce staff workload and frustration.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This not only bridges the gap between empathy and technology but goes beyond mere observation, offering a tech-assisted safety net that enhances the overall patient experience. The patient experience has always been a top concern, but health systems constantly grapple with barriers like limited time, funds, and resources.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For example, artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to improve financial forecasting, risk management, and decision-making processes while automation can streamline routine operations and improve productivity to reduce costs.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Promoting preventive care and population health: Patient portals can be used to promote preventive care and population health. For example, patients can use their portals to receive reminders for vaccinations and screenings. Visit [link] What exactly is patient engagement?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For example, generative AI tools could analyze a call transcript to highlight areas for improvement. Gauri Puri, head of healthcare and life sciences at WNS, Skense is already being used for clinical decision-making, as well many use cases discussed in this series, and others such as nurse reviews.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

SDoH in the Field Two examples of clinical institutions putting SDoH to use today are the Medical Home Network (MHN) of Chicago and One Brooklyn Health. MHN worked with ClosedLoop to find patients who needed assistance with basic health activities such as finding food and scheduling wellness visits. and the world.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Doctors, nurses, technicians, revenue cycle specialists, cybersecurity experts, and even HR staff are in short supply. To be clear, Ebrahim is not referring to doctors or nurses. For example, why not work with a professional services or consulting firm, or a cybersecurity company to leverage their workforce to augment your own.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

For example, for Legos any curves needed to be built using rectangles, because that was all that was available. When done right, revenue integrity management supports the delivery of high-quality care, enabling providers to reinvest in staff, infrastructure, and technology, and ultimately improve patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A patient can speak to a nurse immediately—as opposed to calling a PCP, who might take hours or even days to return a call—and determine whether a problem can be solved at home, urgent care, or the emergency room. An example of the unusual problems Wellframe can turn up is a truck driver who wasn’t adhering to his prescriptions.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A recent report from Cigna indicated 60% of consumers expect their digital healthcare experience to mirror that of retail – and 50% say that one bad digital experience with a healthcare provider ruins the entire experience with that provider. Patient Access as a Use Case.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2024

We talk a lot about how different AI applications and tools could save us time or how they could improve the patient experience. Additionally, they enable personalized treatment approaches by analyzing individual patient data and tailoring interventions to meet specific needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Rutledge and Tina Burbine of Healthlink Advisors say that in-patient visits can turn up aspects of SDoH that you wouldn’t get in an office visit or even a virtual conference. A visiting nurse can look in the kitchen cabinets and refrigerator, for instance, to find out whether the patient has enough food and what its quality is.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“Normally, it would have taken three to six months to roll out this type of platform to more than 650 providers, but we did it in less than two weeks – a testament to our amazing leadership and staff. The most difficult aspect was deploying the technology to be effective and efficient for both patients and providers.”

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Ever since the announcement last year that three of America’s biggest companies — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase — had united, Voltron-style, to fight for lower healthcare costs and forge “a better patient experience” for their combined 1.2 For the most part, we’re still waiting.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

New patient experience expectations, coupled with a looming labor shortage in radiology, is forcing new (and in many cases, overdue) innovation in imaging diagnostics. AI can be used to calibrate devices, for example, or fine-tune the amount of radiation emitted to reduce it to an amount that’s as low as reasonably achievable.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

They have more time to improve the patient experience and spend less time making sense of the EHR. They learn to perform a step-by-step process that considers all the important elements from previous records to ensure patient safety and meet organizational needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

In order to achieve health equity, we must build a solid foundation of patient trust and communication. In dentistry, for example, chairside AI software has been instrumental in strengthening trust. For example, the U.S. For example, teledentistry is uncommon, but has valuable applications for patients living in care deserts.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2023

I n a letter sent in March to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the American Hospital Association called the workforce shortage hospitals were experiencing a “national emergency,” projecting the overall shortage of nurses to reach 1.1 And it’s not just nurses: Professionals from medical lab workers to paramedics are in short supply.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

An example of calling out SDoH was cited by Dr. Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. That data can reveal important information that might not make it into the patient’s own record, such as an emergency room visit. We’ll see many examples of these uses in this series.

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